Unforgetting a tradition
Kenneth Burke, Karl Marx and Aristotelian naturalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard H Thames (Duquesne University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 116-124 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Russian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19409419.2015.1008935 |
| OpenAlex | W2036004923 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Kenneth Burke was profoundly influenced by Marx but more philosophically than politically or economically. Additionally rather than contrasting Soviet communism and American capitalism, Burke critiques their shared scientism—his adaptation of Marx ironically proving crucial to his critique. Burke assimilates Marx and Spinoza into Aristotelian naturalism (or realism), a tradition that dominated American philosophy 1900-60, one with which Marx was identified in practice if not name in Soviet philosophy. Burke accepts Marx' materialistic-idealistic dialectic as descriptive of the dynamic underlying change but rejects his eschatology, one system's being overthrown by another more adequate to the demands of a particular time and place before its being overthrown in turn but without progressing toward an ultimate state. Likewise, nature's material recalcitrance may resist science's ideal explanations (giving rise to anomalies violating paradigmatic predictions), sometimes leading to scientific revolution (paradigm change) resulting in perhaps more adequate ideas, but without progressing toward total knowledge
Capitalism · Communism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Materialism · Naturalism · Personalism · Politics · Realism · Scientism · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |